http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f10-date%3D1798%3A%3A02 Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f10-date=1798::02 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02001.xml I KNOW not whether my pen will afford me any amusement in my present condition. I have been little accustomed to the use of it, but I have nothing else to do, and my pre- sent situation stands in need of being beguiled of its cares. I am without books, and am not permitted to leave my chamber. I have, therefore, no alternative. This, or nothing is my lot. I cannot consent to pass a life of inactivity. But what shall I write? There is something whimsical in this undertaking. For a man of my ha- bits, at the age of sixty, to sit down to the writing desk! Nothing would have been less expected a month ago, and nothing but the unfortunate cir- cumstances in which I am placed would reconcile me to it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02001.xml Tue, 03 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02033.xml GO thy ways for an honest crea- ture. I cannot explain to thee, in an intelligible way, the true nature of my condition; or perhaps I might be disposed to gratify thy curiosity. I have no need to dread from thee any imputations on the honesty of my proceeding. Casuists have, long ago, settled that point. By casuists such as thou, it would never be brought into question. That action may be wrong, which law has thought proper to prohibit and punish. He that per- petrates it may be truly criminal. The action by which we incur punish- ment is unjust, but what is to be said of the means by which we elude the penalty? No doubt an highwayman is criminal, but after the commission of the deed, he endeavours to elude his pursuers. Do these endeavours enhance his guilt? When taken, and dungeon-doomed, and fettered, does duty restrain him from breaking his chains, and restoring himself, by the exertion of dexterity or strength, to liberty? http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02033.xml Tue, 10 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02065.xml I AM sitting here employed in this way, from a notion that it is the only practicable employment: It is the only exercise, as I suppose, within my reach. This perhaps is an error. In one sense my sphere is a small one. My observation is limited to an area of twelve feet square; but surely it becomes me to examine every thing within this space. If it be small, the examination is proportionably easy. If our means are few, the motives seem to be enhanced for making the best use of them of which they are capable. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02065.xml Tue, 17 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02099.xml I HAVE talked with Kate upon the subject of this chest. Her infor- mation, as I expected, is not very satisfactory. When she first applied for this house it was untenanted. Its recent inhabitants had been destroyed by the reigning malady. The scanty furniture that was possessed by them, had been partly sold by the landlord for the payment of arrears. The rest, such as beds and clothes, had been buried or burnt, on account of the in- fection which they were supposed to have imbibed. The seeming worth- lessness of this trunk, and the difficulty of removing it, had rescued it from the general wreck. In the terms which he made with Kate, the landlord al- lowed her to act, with regard to this piece of furniture, as she thought proper. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-02099.xml Tue, 24 Feb 1970 12:00:00 GMT